come in for

English

Verb

come in for (third-person singular simple present comes in for, present participle coming in for, simple past came in for, past participle come in for)

  1. (transitive) To be subjected to.
    If you go into the forest, you'll come in for a nasty surprise.
    The director came in for a lot of criticism about the way she handled the disaster.
    • 2020 [2019 September 17], Edward Snowden, Permanent Record (autobiography; paperback), Pan Books, →ISBN, page 33:
      As the Quakers are pacifists, they came in for community censure for deciding to join the fight for independence, but their conscience demanded a reconsideration of their pacifism.
    • 2025 June 11, Stuart Heritage, “‘Please walk away from Harry Potter’: why the stars of HBO’s new TV show are in for decades of social media hell”, in The Guardian‎[1], →ISSN:
      [Katherine] Parkinson has come in for especially sustained attacks, given that her breakout role was in The IT Crowd, made by Graham Linehan, who is on the same side as [JK] Rowling when it comes to gender.

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